Chieur, m. (popular), d’encre, clerk, or “quill-driver.”
Chiffarde, f. (thieves’), summons; pipe.
Chiffe, f. (popular), rag-picking; tongue, “red rag.”
Chifferlinde, f. (popular), boire une ——, to drink a dram of spirits.
Chifferton, m. (popular), rag-picker, “bone-grubber,” or “tot-picker.”
Chiffon, m. (popular), handkerchief, “snottinger;” —— rouge, tongue, “red rag.” Balancer le —— rouge, to talk, “to wag the red rag.”
Chiffonnage, m. (popular), plunder of a rag-picker.
Chiffonnier, m. (thieves’), pickpocket who devotes his attention to handkerchiefs, “stook-hauler;” man of disorderly habits. (Literary). Chiffonnier de la double colline, bad poet.
Chiffornion, m. (popular), silk handkerchief, or silk “wipe.”
Chiffortin, m. (popular), rag-picker, “bone-grubber,” or “tot-picker.”